Re: Thoughts on next stable release(s)

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 22:30 +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-06-16 at 22:24 +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > it's been 7 months since the last stable (bugfix) release, LilyPond
> > 2.24.3. Today I went through the list of all (smaller) merge requests
> > and marked those that we might want to apply to the stable/2.24 branch
> > with the Backport label:
> > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests?state=merged&label_name[]=Backport
> > 
> > It's not many and they are each small, but in my opinion we could think
> > about having LilyPond 2.24.4 in early / mid July. What do you think? If
> > there are other changes that you would like to see backported and I
> > missed so far, or you are unsure about, please ping me on GitLab or
> > reply to this message.
> 
> I backported the fixes collected so far, except for
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2231 which
> doesn't apply and I believe is not needed for stable/2.24.
> 
> The tentative plan would be to release 2.25.18 next weekend and then
> 2.24.4 the week after, maybe again with binaries produced on Wednesday
> or Thursday (to be seen).

So "Wednesday or Thursday" didn't happen (too busy), but the binaries
(as well as the source code) are now available from GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/packages/27483288

I tested the binaries on my end, as best as I could, and they seem to
work well. Give them a try if you want on your end (bonus points for
testing on macOS, I can only check on the same machine that also built
the binaries, which might hide some problems). Unless I hear something
really terrible before tomorrow, I will officially announce the release
then.

Cheers
Jonas

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